Garment-clasp.



M. KRISOHER.

GARMENT CLASP.

' APPLICATION FILED Anm. 1912.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

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GARMENT- CLASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented NOV. 19, 1912.

Application filed April 2, 1912. Serial No. 688,024..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX Knrsorccn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Garment-Clasp, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a clasp attachable to webbing to suspend the clasp for engaging the upper end of a stocking or clasping other garments and is more especially intended for use as a stocking supporter.

Clasps of the type to which the invention relates include a loop and a tab carrying a button, and the object of my invention is to provide an improved means for securing the tab, and to combine the tab with the buckle from which the loop and tab are suspended, in a novel manner.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given, and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of a garment clasp embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 22 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a rear view with the tab raised to show the manner of securing it to the buckle; and Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the back plate of the buckle.

My improved buckle comprises a back plate 10, to which a gripping lever 11 is pivoted between ears 12 that project forwardly from the plate 10, the said lever serving to grip a piece of webbing 13, which may, in practice, be carried, for instance by a corset or other article of wear. The clamping loop 14 of the clasp is hinged to the back plate 10 by the upturned lower end 15 of said plate. The back plate, at a point above the lower end, is formed with parallel slits 16 ranging transversely'of the plate, as best shown in Fig. 4, and the intermediate member 17 between said slits is pressed rearwardly out of the plane of the plate 10 to receive beneath said member the upper end of the tab 18 of the clasp, the end of the tab being passed through the upper slit 16 beneath the member 17 to the front of the plate and back through the lower slit 16 to the rear of the plate, after which the member 17 is forcibly pressed inward to grip the tab between the edges of the member 17 and the opposed edges on the back plate 10. It will be observed that the member 17 is integral with the plate 10 and joins the same at both its ends, and that it is formed from the body of the plate and without the necessity of forming any projecting ears or tongues. The tab 18 is turned over the top edge of the member 17 and hangs at the back of said member, and therefore at the back of the buckle. It will be observed also that the tab covers the member 17 at the back, and since the said member maintains the tab in a plane outside of the rear surface of the back plate 10, the buckle is largely rustless because a material portion is covered by the tab, and the remaining portion is held away from contact with the person of the wearer. The lower end of the tab carries, as usual, any approved form of button 19.

On the lower edge of the gripping lever 11, near the side edges, said lever is formed with downwardly projecting members 20, which give an ornamental effect to the grip ping lever and serve, when the lever. is closed, to engage the loop O at the upper ends of the sides, the effect of which is to hold the loop la practically rigid so that it can not swing. on its hinged connection with the back plate or move relatively to the said plate or to the lever unless considerable,

pressure is used on the loop, or the lever is raised. The holding of the loop practically rigid with the buckle and its lever, facilitates the manipulation of the clasp in gripping the garment.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The herein-described garment clasp, comprising a plate, a loop hinged at its upper end to the lower end of said plate, a button tab carried by said plate and provided with a button to act with the loop, and a grip- In testimony whereof I have signed my ping lever at the front of the plate and name to this specification in the presence of pivoted thereto, the said lever having memtWo subsoribing Witnesses.

bers at its bottom near the sides engaging MAX KRISCHER. the upper ends of the loop and holding the Witnesses:

same against movement on its hinge wh n J .'L. MGAULIZFFE,

the lever is in a closed position. JOHN P. DAVIS.

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